3 restaurants in Middletown list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Roma Pizza at $14.99. The typical price across town is $16.50, and the dearest we found is $16.60 at Luna's Pizzeria & Italian Grill, so the two ends of the list are $1.61 apart, which is 11% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.
We track stuffed shells in 250 other areas and compare them all on stuffed shells across United States. The typical price there runs $16.45 at the median, so Middletown is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 114 of the 250. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Mr P Pizza & Pasta in North Wales, PA, and the highest best price is $20.10 in West Springfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Elkton, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $14.50.
Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Middletown? Roma Pizza, at $14.99 on 401 East Main Street. The same dish reaches $16.60 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.61.
What should stuffed shells cost here? About $16.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Middletown that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.
Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Elkton, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $14.50. That is $0.49 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.
Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middletown, DE this page |
$14.99 | $16.50 | 3 |
| Elkton, MD
Johnny's Pizza & Grill · about 16 mi away |
$14.50 | $15.95 | 4 |
| Newark, DE
Rudy's Pizza & Italian Bistro · about 18 mi away |
$13.79 | $16.50 | 6 |
| New Castle, DE
Pizza & Pasta · about 18 mi away |
$13.95 | $15.99 | 4 |
| Wilmington, DE
Prospero's Pizza · about 24 mi away |
$13.00 | $16.99 | 6 |
| Aberdeen, MD
Santini's Italian Cuisine · about 26 mi away |
$16.99 | $18.95 | 3 |
| Vineland, NJ
Lincoln Pizza · about 37 mi away |
$12.99 | $16.99 | 4 |
| Media, PA
Middletown Pizza & Grill · about 37 mi away |
$12.55 | $13.99 | 4 |
| West Chester, PA
Sabatino's Grill · about 37 mi away |
$14.99 | $19.00 | 5 |
| Sewell, NJ
Johnny's Pizzeria · about 39 mi away |
$15.99 | $19.00 | 8 |
| Turnersville, NJ
Tony's Pizza & Ristorante · about 41 mi away |
$14.99 | $20.59 | 3 |
| Coatesville, PA
Milton's Pizza & Pasta · about 41 mi away |
$14.05 | $16.00 | 4 |
| Williamstown, NJ
Cacia's Bakery · about 42 mi away |
$12.99 | $17.00 | 6 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in Middletown.